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Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis, 1831

Bucknell, Oxfordshire

BUCKNELL, a parish in the hundred of PLOUGHLEY, county of OXFORD, 2½ miles (N.W. by N.) from Bicester, containing 235 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at £13. 16. 0½., and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Peter: at a short distance from it, near the verge of a coppice, are the foundations of numerous houses that constituted the village of Saxenton, the greater part of which was destroyed by the Danes, about the year 912; the site, for many generations, has been unoccupied by a single habitation.